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Who We Are
Established in 2005, MarketSpend is a strategic sourcing and procurement consulting company committed to capturing breakthrough value and efficiencies from all company and third party spend. We are seasoned professionals with 15-20+ years in sourcing, knowledgeable in the Category Management process with hands-on experience working in the corporate world and consulting environment.
Purchasing groups in America’s leading corporations today are evolving into world class sourcing organizations, moving from tactical to strategic roles. We work with these in-house teams on strategic business planning, category and supplier management, spend optimization, process improvements, and skills development. Together, we analyze the company's total global spend and refine it to dramatically impact the top and bottom line.
MarketSpend can maximize your sourcing department's impact by helping you:
- Align with business strategies.
- Partner with the business areas.
- Engage throughout the commercialization process.
- Strategically manage spend at the category level.
- Exercise pro-active risk management.
- Scale for expansion/contraction.
- Collaborate on development of innovative solutions.
- Capture planned value, compliance, innovation and continuous improvement with multi-faceted Supplier Relationship Management.
MarketSpend Team
Program Directors – providing program management and work closely with project teams, sponsors and steering committees providing Category Management quality input through stages of process to help projects achieve and exceed targets, ‘push the envelope’ and achieve maximum value creation.
Knowledge transfer to project leads and teams for continuous improvement of Category Management expertise to deliver greater value and savings.
Category Management Consultants – collaborative “doing” role providing:
- Category Management mobilization, process and facilitation guidance.
- Co-development of R&D Category Management project materials for cross-functional team, sponsor, stakeholders and Leadership Team meetings.
- Direction to internal and external analysts for research, data gathering, analysis and reporting.
- Process and/or content expertise.
- Knowledge transfer Category Management process and subject matter expertise.
- Industry and competitor benchmark and analysis with market intelligence.
- Proactive coaching and enhancing measured skills and competencies transfer to Company sourcing Project Leader.
- Self-starter, comfortable with deal ambiguity, providing project/change management, communication and engagement with senior management and business partners, with financial and business acumen (look at balance sheet, able to break down cost components/drivers).
Project Management Consultants – collaborative “doing” role providing:
- Project Management Support.
- Schedule coordination and meeting management.
- Project plan management.
- Action plans and follow up.
- Communications and support for presentation preparation.
- Select data gathering and analysis.
- Change management planning.
- Implementation planning.
Business Analyst Consultants – providing knowledge transfer and support for research, data gathering, analysis and reporting working with project teams.
- Opportunity data and spend analysis.
- Internal and supply market data gathering and analysis.
- RFI, RFP and eRA preparation assistance and analysis.
- Source plan preparation.
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